Grignard reagent
English
Etymology
Named for François Auguste Victor Grignard, a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist.
Noun
Grignard reagent (plural Grignard reagents)
- (chemistry) an alkyl or aryl magnesium halide, used in the Grignard reaction to form substituted alcohols; they are formed from alkyl or aryl halides and metallic magnesium
Translations
alkyl or aryl magnesium halide
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